War in the Middle East continues after the United States and Israel attacked Iran late last month, and Tehran retaliated with strikes against several of its neighbors, including US-allied Gulf states.

The statistic circulating online in March 2026 came from a 2020 survey.

As the Middle East crisis unfolds, Iran demonstrates a coherent retaliatory strategy against US and Israeli forces, targeting 17 American sites across the region.

According to U.S. Central Command, over 5,000 targets were struck and 50 Iranian vessels were damaged or destroyed in the first 10 days of the war with Iran.

Tehran has targeted thousands of missiles and drones at sites across the Middle East. Here are the locations that have been hit.

The ripple effects were felt far beyond the Middle East, with tens of thousands of passengers stranded as far away as Bali, Kathmandu and Frankfurt. Thousands of flights have been affected across the Middle East,